Extension Practice

What is Extension?

A history in Australia

Performance Indicators and Benchmarking in Extension

Pareto's Law

To assist extension planning

ID and Prioritise Stakeholders

Know yourself and others better

Predict likely levels of adoption

published - 10 August 2016

Farming Systems Research

There are numerous definitions and practices around Farming Systems Research (FSR). However, according to the ACIAR definition of Farming Systems Research it is:

Research related to the smallholder, subsistence-orientated agriculture sector because this is the principal target group for FSR through ACIAR;
FSR projects are multidisciplinary and holistic in perspective, therefore projects …
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Farming systems research, Researcher

Methods & Tools

published - 1 August 2016

Agricultural Extension Information and Knowledge as Public and Private Goods

Umali and Schwartz developed a schema that categorises agricultural knowledge and information into an economic classification system. This system denotes the character of the knowledge and information and the degree to which farmers are prepared to pay it. The categorisation is used to inform the appropriate roles for the public …
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Appropriate roles, Economic classification system, Funding, Private sector role, Role of government

Theory